Complete List of Obituaries 2020 - PDF

September 2020

Name of the Personality	Field
Former President Pranab Mukherjee	Former India’s President
Joe Ruby	Animator, writer, editor, producer by profession
KS Bajpai	Former Indian Ambassador to US, Pakistan, China
Dr S Padmavati	India’s First Female Cardiologist
David Capel	Former England team’s Cricket Player
Jiri Menzel	Oscar Winner and Czech Film Director
Govind Swarup	Father of India’s Radio Astronomy
Johnny Bakshi	Filmmaker
Jaya Prakash Reddy	Telgu Film Actor
Diana Rigg	British Actress
Raghuvansh Prasad	Former Union Minister
Chanesh Ram Rathiya	Former Chhattisgarh Minister
Kapila Vatsyayan	Indian Classical Dancer
Swami Ahnivesh	Social Activist
Sadashiv Patil	Former Cricket player of Maharashtra
Amitabha Ghosh	Former shortest-serving RBI Governor
Ashok Gasti	Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka state
Moussa Traore	Former President of Mali
PR Krishnakumar	Prominent Indian Ayurveda Physician
Babu Sivan	Tamil Film Director
Winston Groom	American Novelist and Journalist
Ang Rita Sherpa	Nepal based Mountaineer
Bibhuranjan Choudhury	Assam Music Composer
Ashalata Wabgaonkar	Marathi Film Actress
John Turner	Former Prime Minister of Canada
Bhupesh Pandya	Bollywood Film Actor
Suresh Angadi	Union Minister of State for Railways
Dean Jones	Former Australian Cricketer
S P Balasubrahmanyam	Indian musician, singer and music director
Sekhar Basu	Padmashri awardee, veteran atomic scientist and former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
Jaswant Singh	Former Union Minister
Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia	Economist
Syeda Anwara Taimur	Assam’s first and only Chief Minister
Abhilash	Songwriter

August 2020

Name of the Personality	Field
Anil Murali	Malayalam Actor
Lee Teng Hiu	Former Taiwan President
Everton Weekes	Former West Indies Cricketer
Amar Singh	Rajya Sabha MP and Former Samajwadi Party leader
Kamal Rani	Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister
P Manikyala Rao	Minister from Andhra Pradesh
Ebrahim Alkazi	Theater Director and Drama Teacher
John Hume	Northern Island Politician and Nobel Peace Prize, Winner
William Kirk English	American Computer Engineer
Ram Pradhan	Former Governor of Arunachal Pradesh
Shivajirao Patil	Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Sameer Sharma	Hindi Television Actor
Sadia Dehlvi	Writer and Activist
Mukund Lath	Cultural Historian
Nandi Yellaiah	Minister by Profession
Manitombi Singh	Former Indian Football Player
James ‘Kamala’ Haris	Wrestler by Profession
Rahat Indori	Renowned Urdu Poet
PK Muthuswamy	Tamil Film Songwriter
GK Menon	Sports Journalist
Chunakkara Ramankutty	Malayalam Poet and Lyricist
Chetan Chauhan	Former Cricket Player and Uttar Pradesh Minister
Pandit Jasraj	Indian Classical Vocalist
Nishikant Kamat	Director and Actor
Russel Kirsch	Computer Scientist
Angela Buxton	British Tennis Player
Bhaskar Maity	Former Indian Goalkeeper
Gopalswamy Kasturirangan	Former Indian Cricketer
Pascal Lissouba	Former President of the Republic of Congo
Arnold Meyer Spielberg	Computer Designer and an Engineer
Chandwick Boseman	Actor by Profession
A.R. Lakshmanan	Former Supreme Court Judge
Archana Mahanta	Folk singer of Assam
Purishotham Rai	Athletics Coach

July 2020

Name of the Personality	Field
Carl Reiner	Writer, Comedian, Director and Actor
Saroj Khan	Dance Choreographer
Everton Weekes	Former West Indies Cricketer
Upa Rokamlova	Former Mizoram Assembly Speaker
Susheel Gowda	Kannada Actor and a Fitness Trainer
Jagdeep	Bollywood Actor and Comedian
Jack Charlton	England Football Player
Avad Bin Hassna	Cartoonist by Profession
Nagindas Sanghvi	Renowned Journalist
Jyotsna Bhatt	Renowned Ceramic Artist
Wim Suurbier	Football Player of Dutch
Brahm Vasudeva	Chairman of Hawkins Cooker (Businessman)
Ramesh Tikaram	Para-Athlete and Para-Badminton Player
Neela Satyanarayanan	First Women Election Commissioner of Maharashtra
Cordy Tindell Vivian	American Minister
C S Seshadri	Mathematician
Rajat Mukherjee	Indian Film Maker
Lalji Tandon	Governor of Madhya Pradesh
Barry Jarman	Former Australian Cricket Player
Bijay Mohanty	Odia Actor
Juan Marse	Novelist from Spain
Viktor Chizhikov	Creator of 1980 Moscow Summer Olympic Masscot
Annie Ross	Jazz Singer
Amala Shankar	Eminent Choreographer
Benjamin Mkapa	Former Tanzania’s Former President
Olivia de Havilland	Oscar-Winning British-American Actress
John Saxon	American Actor
Achyuta Rao	Child Welfare activist
Kumkum	Veteran Actress
Sonam Tshering Lepcha	Padma Shri Awardee Folk Singer
Parvez Khan	Action Director

June 2020

Name of the Personality	Field
Wajid Khan	Singer and Music Composer
P Namgyal	Former Minister and Social Worker
Jayantilal Nanoma	Archery Coach
Basu Chatterjee	Film Maker
Riaz Sheikh	Former Pakistani Cricketer
Anwar Sagar	Lyricist by Profession
Rupert Hine	British Film Producer and Songwriter
Hamza Koya	Former Football Santosh Trophy Player
Kurt Thomas	Former World Gymnastic Champion
Arjun Charan	Former Union Minister
Jagesh Mukati	Television Actor
Pritam Singh	Padmashri Awardee and Former Director of IIM Lucknow
Pierre Nkurunziza	President of Republic of Burundi
Tony Dunne	Footballer
A. Vaidyanathan	Former Member of Planning Commission and was also a Professor
Gulzar Dehlvi	Veteran Urdu Poet
Sushant Singh Rajput	Bollywood Actor
Vasant Raiji	India’s Oldest First-Class Cricketer
Matt Poore	Former Cricketer of New Zealand
Atul Srivastava	Director of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL)
Madhavrao Patil	Former Lok Sabha MP and Founder of Janalaxmi Cooperative Bank
Heera Singh Rana	Folk Singer from Uttarakhand
Dinu Randive	Veteran Journalist and a Freedom Fighter
Lt Gen Raj Mohan Vohra	Mahavir Chakra Awardee
Achyut Usgaonkar	Former Minister from Goa
KR Sachidanandan	Malayalam Film Director, Scriptwriter and Producer
B P R Vithal	Veteran Economist
Vidyaben Shah	Padmashri Awardee and a Social Worker
Rajinder Goel	Former Cricket Player
Steve Bing	Movie Producer and Philanthropist
Major Gen Lachhman Singh Lehl	India’s Finest Military Man
Vishwa Bandhu Gupta	Member of Parliament and Journalist
Pournima Zanane	Former Indian Shooter
K Raghunath	Former Karnataka Basketball Player
Joel Schmacher	Hollywood Film Director
Sqn.Ldr. Parvez Jamsaji	Vir Chakra Awardee for Gallantry during 1971 Indo-Pakistan War
Geetha Nagabhusahn	Kannada Writer

May 2020

Name of the Personality	Field
Hema Bharali	Freedom Fighter
Chuni Goswami	Former Indian football Team Captain
Denis Goldberg	Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist
Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi	Former Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court
RV Smith	Historian, Author and Columnist
Peter Ebdon	Former World Snooker Champion
K S Nisar	Famous Kannada Poet
Rob Gibbs	Veteran Director, Story Artist, and Writer of Pixar Films
Pandanda Kuttappa	Founder of the Kodava Family Hockey Tournament
Hari Shankar Vasudevan	Historian
Little Richard	American singer-songwriter and was the founder of Rock N Roll
Raja Rangappa	Former Lok Sabha MP
Manmeet Singh	Former Indian Table Tennis Player
Jerry Stiller	US Comedian
Shafique Ansari	Indian TV Actor
Sai Gundewar	Film Actor, and Voiceover Artist
Betty Wright	Grammy award-winning soul singer
Debesh Roy	Bengali author and was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award
Anisuzzanan	Professor and Educationist from Bangladesh
Hossein Kazempour Ardebili	Iran’s Governor to the OPEC
Ratnakar Matkari	Renowned Marathi Dramatist and Theatre Artist
Balbir Singh	Former Indian Hockey Player
Ashley Cooper	Australian Tennis Player
Hana Kimura	Former Japanese Wrestler
Gigi Simoni	Italian Football Player and Former Inter Head Coach
Shyamala G Bhave	Classical Musician from Karnataka
Mohit Baghel	Bollywood Film Actor
Mujtaba Hussain	Urdu author, humorist and sitarist
R Shanmugam	Former Tamil Nadu Footballer and Coach
Ajit Jogi	First Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
M.P. Veerendra Kumar	Rajya Sabha Member and Former Union Minister
Yogesh Gaur	Lyricist by profession of many Hindi movie songs

April 2020

Name of the Personality	Field
Pape Diouf	Former President of French Football Club Olympique
Ramkrishna Dwivedi	Former Leader and Congressmen
Rudratej Singh	BMW Group President and CEO
Michael Robinson	Professional Footballer
Irrfan khan	Bollywood’s Most Beloved Star
Rishi Kapoor	Veteran Bollywood Actor
Maria Teresa	Spain’s Princess
Philip Anderson	Nobel Prize-winning Physicist
Tony Lewis	Cricketer and Mathematician
Adam Schlesinger	Emmy Award-Winning Singer
Geeta Ramji	Indian Origin South African Virologist
Bill Withers	American Songwriter, Soulful Singer, and Guitarist
MK Arjuna	Malayalam Music Composer
Mahmoud Jibril	Former Libya Prime Minister
Hazarilal Raghuwanshi	Former Madhya Pradesh Minister
TV Babu	Secretary of Kerala based NDA ally BDJS
John Prine	American Folk Singer and Song Writer
Honor Blackman	James Bond Film Actress
'Bullet’ Prakash	Kannada Film Actor
Radomir Antic	Former Real Madrid, Atletico and Barcelona Coach
Kalinga Sasi	Malayalam Film and Theatre Actor
Brahm Kanchibotla	Indian American Journalist
Peter Bonetti	Former England and Chelsea Goalkeeper
Stirling Moss	Motor Racing Driver
Tim Brooke	British Comedian
Ashok Desai	Former India’s Attorney General and a Senior Advocate
Rajasekharan	Former Union Minister
Doug Sanders	Former Golf Player
Rifat Chadirji	The Father of Modern Iraqi Architecture
Roger Chappot	Swiss Ice Hockey Player
Ranjit Chowdhry	Film, Television and Theatre Actor
Willie Davis	Former American Footballer
R V Bhuskute	Freedom Fighter
Saharai Oram	Veteran Tribal Leader Former Odisha Minister
Gene Deitch	Oscar-Winning Animator, Film Director, and Producer
Laisenia Qarase	Former Fiji Prime Minister
MP Basanta Das	Former Rajya Sabha Member from Odisha
Usha Ganguly	Eminent Theatre Director, Actor as well as Activist
Devanand Konwar	Former Politician and Governor of Bihar and Tripura and West Bengal
Bijay Mishra	Noted Odia Dramatist and Play Writer
James M Beggs	Sixth Administrator of NASA
Troy Sneed	Singer

March 2020

Name of the Personality	Field
Joginder Singh Saini	Veteran Athletics Coach and Dronacharya Awardee
Balbir Singh Kullar	Former India Hockey Player
Sanghanayaka Suddhananda Mahathero	Bangladesh Bouddha Kristi Prachar Sangha
Javier Perez de Cuellar	Former UN Chief
Hans Raj Bhardwaj	Former Union Law Minister and Congress Veteran
Max von Sydow	Swedish Actor
Santu Mukhopadhyay	Veteran Bengali Actor
Dana Zatopkova	Former Czechoslovak Olympic Javelin Champion
Puthussery Ramachandran	Veteran Poet and Malayalam Scholar
Patil Puttappa	Veteran Journalist and Former Rajya Sabha Member
Imtiaz Khan	Bollywood Actor
Jairam Kulkarni	Noted Marathi Actor
Roger Mayweather	Former World Champion Boxer
Kenny Rogers	American Music Singer
PK Banerjee	Legendary Indian Footballer
Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan	Veteran Tamil Director
Abdul Latif	Former India Footballer
Nimmi	Veteran Bollywood Actress
Albert Uderzo	Co-Creator of the “Asterix and Obelix” Comics
Nemai Ghosh	Veteran Photographer & Padma Shri Awardee
Floyd Cardoz	Indian-Born International Chef
Satish Gujral	Padma Vibhushan Award Winning Artist, Architect, Sculptor and Writer
Rajyogini Dadi Janki	Chief of Brahmakumaris Sansthan
Joseph Lowery	Veteran US Civil Rights Leader
Chandan Singh Rathore	Retired Air Vice-Marshal
Beni Prasad Verma	Former Union Minister
Ken Shimura	Veteran Japanese Comedian
Arjun Dev	Legendary Historian and Educationist
Joe Diffie	Grammy Award American Music Singer
Paravai Muniyamma	Tamil Folk Singer and Actress

February 2020

Name of Personality	Field
Sudhakar Chaturvedi	Centenarian freedom fighter and Vedic scholar
Katherine Johnson	NASA Mathematician
Mohammed Hosni Mubarak	Former President of Egypt
Krishna Bose	Former Lok Sabha MP
Ashok Chatterjee	Former Indian footballer
V L Dutt	Former FICCI president
Larry Tesler	The computer scientist who introduced the cut, copy and paste commands.
Harry Greg	Former Manchester United goalkeeper
Mickey Wright	Legendary women golfer
Tapas Pal	Former TMC MP and Veteran Bengali Actor
Nikita Pearl Waligwa	Disney’s ‘Queen of Katwe’ child actress
Lynn Cohen	American actress
Sonam Sherpa	Founding member & lead-guitarist of music band Parikrama
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri	Nobel Prize awardee & Former TERI, IPCC chief
Wendell Rodricks	Padma Shri Awardee & Fashion Designer
Nandu R Kulkarni	Famous journalist
Giriraj Kishore	Padma Shri Awardee & Well-known Hindi Novelist
P Parameswaran	Famous Philosophical Author & RSS veteran
Roger Kahn	American Author
Raju Bharatan	Famous cricket journalist & film historian
Kirk Douglas	Famous Hollywood Actor
D. Manjunath	Former Karnataka Minister
Pranab Kumar Gogoi	Former Assam Speaker and sitting MLA
Rabindranath Singh	Famous Odia poet
Daniel Moi	Kenya’s longest-serving Ex-President
Narayana Reddy	Former Nizamabad Lok Sabha MP
Jaswant Singh	Punjabi Writer, Novelist and Sahitya Akademi Awardee
Mary Higgins Clark	American author

January 2020

Name of the Personality	Field
Vikho-o Yhoshu	Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) leader and Nagaland Assembly Speaker
Ratna Ojha	Eminent Assamese Dramatist, Litterateur and Social Activist
T N Chaturvedi	Former Governor of Karnataka
Minati Mishra	Veteran Odissi Danseuse
Oman Sultan Qaboos bin Said	Charismatic and Visionary Leader
Manmohan Mohapatra	Veteran Odia Filmmaker
Bapu Nadkarni	Former India Legendary All-Rounder
Khagendra Thapa Magar	World’s Shortest Man
Man Mohan Sood	Former Indian Test batsman and National Selector
Kobe Bryant	National Basketball Association (NBA) Legend
Sher Singh Kukkal	Noted Artist and Sculptor
Golok Chandra Goswami	Eminent Assamese Linguist and Academician
Jameela Malik	Veteran South Actress
Sunita Chandra	Former Indian Women’s Hockey Team Captain
Kobe Bryant	Famous Los Angeles Lakers star
Vinay Sinha	Veteran Film Producer
Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deo	Former Parliamentarian
Akbar Padamsee	Famous Artist
Lieutenant General Prem Nath Hoon	Former Western Army Commander

December 2019

Name of the Personalit	Field
Shelley Morrison	Former Hollywood Actress
Baskar Menon	Veteran Journalist in the Press Trust of India (PTI)
Bob Willis	Former England Captain
George Joseph Laurer	Inventor of Universal Product Code(UPC)
Braj Bihari Kumar	Chairman of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
Paul Volcker	Former US Federal Reserve Chief
Writer Gollapudi Maruti Rao	Former Nandi Award winner and Renowned Telugu Actor
Peter Snell	New Zealand’s 3-times Olympic Middle-Distance Champion
Danny Aiello	Veteran Film Actor
Shriram Lagoo	Veteran actor
Gita Siddharth Kak	Bollywood Actress
ID Swami	Former Union Minister
Thomas Chandy	Nationalist Congress Party’s Kerala State President and Former Minister
L.S. Sheshagiri Rao	Kannada Writer and Critic
Vidushi Savita Devi	Renowned Hindustani Classical Vocalist
Ganga Prasad Vimal	Renowned Hindi Author
Martin Peters	Former West Ham and Tottenham Midfielder
Da Chen	‘Colours of the Mountain’ Author
Allee Willis	American Songwriter
Tara Sinha	Founder of AD Agencies Clarion and Tara Sinha Associates
Vikas Sabnis	Veteran Political Cartoonist
Pejawar Mutt	Vishwesha Tirtha Swami
Ishwar Dayal Swami	Former Union Minister

November 2019

Name of the Personality	Field
Gurudas Dasgupta	Former Parliamentarian and veteran CPI leader
Geetanjali	Popular Telugu Actress
Champak Jain	Film Producer
Krishnan Kumar Modi(K.K.Modi)	Former President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Chairman of Modi Enterprises
Justice N.V. Balasubramanian	Retired Judge of Madras High Court
Yvette Lundy	French Resistance legend & Nazi camps survivor
Babasaheb Dhabekar	Former Maharashtra minister and senior Congress party leader
Writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen	Sahitya Akademi Awardee
TN Seshan	Former Chief Election Commissioner
Ramakant Gundecha	Padma Shri-Awardee Dhrupad Vocalist
Vashishtha Narayan Singh	Renowned Mathematician
Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan	Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)
PS Krishnan	Former Union Secretary
Shaukat Kaifi	Veteran actor
Kshiti Goswami	Former West Bengal Minister
Kailash Joshi	Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister
Clive James	Australian writer & broadcaster
Sudhir Dar	Renowned cartoonist
Bala Singh	Veteran Tamil Actor and Theatre Artist
Brad Gobright	World-renowned Rock Climber, US National
Yasuhiro Nakasone	Former Prime Minister of Japan
Sushil Kumar	Former Navy Chief Admiral

October 2019

Name of the Personality	Field
V Ganesan	Indian National Army (INA) veteran from Tamil Nadu
Jose Jose	Legendary Mexican Singer
Jessye Norman	Grammy-winning International Opera Star
Eric Pleskow	Hollywood Tycoon
Dr H L Trivedi	Kidney Transplant Surgeon and Padma Shri Recipient
Farook Khan	Indian-origin journalist in South Africa
Krishna Gopalkrishna Kadekodi	Centenarian Philatelist and Coin Collector
Satyapriya Mohathero	Buddhist leader of Bangladesh
Diahann Carroll	American Actress, Singer and Model
Kadri Gopalnath	Legendary Saxophonist and the Padma Shri Awardee
Sara Danius	First Female head of Nobel’s Literature Award Body
Alexei Leonov	First Human to Walk in Space
Kalidas Karmakar	Renowned Painter
Alicia Alonso	Legendary Cuba Ballet Dancer
Mark Hurd	Former Co-Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Oracle
K.B. Siddaiah	Writer and Philosopher
Dadu Chougule	Wrestler and Recipient of Major Dhyanchand Award
Marieke Vervoort	Belgian Paralympic Athlete
Dilip Parikh	Former Gujarat Chief Minister
Nanammal	Padma Shri Awardee & India’s Oldest Yoga Teacher
Sadako Ogata	First Female UN Refugee Chief
John Witherspoon	Actor and Comedian
N. Venkatachala	Former Judge of the Supreme Court and Former Lokayukta of Karnataka

September 2019

Name of the Personality	Field
Viju Khote (best known as Kalia from Sholay)	Actor
KPS Menon (Junior)	Former Foreign Secretary
Boman Rashid Kohinoor	Owner of Britannia & Co
J. Michael Mendel	American television producer & a four-time Emmy Award winner
Jacques Chirac	Former French President
Venu Madhav	Telugu Actor
S.K. Padmadevi	Veteran actor and multi-faceted artiste
Robert S Boyd	Veteran American Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
Fernando Ricksen	Former Dutch football player
Shyam Ramsay	Filmmaker
Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali	Former President of Tunisia
Sathar	Veteran Malayalam Actor
Kodela Siva Prasada Rao	Former speaker of Andhra Pradesh Assembly
Sanjib Kumar Datta	Film Editor
SivaramanCheriyanad	Renowned writer of Kerala
B.N. Yugandhar	Former bureaucrat and Secretary to the PMO
Akilisi Pohiva	Climate change campaigner of the South Pacific and Prime Minister of Tongan
Rajasekar	Tamil actor, cinematographer and director
Heeralal Sharma	Rajasthan born freedom fighter of India
Ram Jethmalani	One of India’s finest lawyers and a former union minister
Veeru Krishnan	Actor and Kathak dancer
Abdul Qadir	Pakistan’s master leg-spinner
Sukhdev Singh Libra	Veteran Congress leader and former MP
Robert Mugabe	Former Zimbabwe President
Kiran Nagarkar	Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writer
V Ganesan	Indian National Army (INA) veteran
Davo Karnica	Mountain skier
Madhav Apte	Former Indian test cricketer
Naramalli Shivprasad	Senior TDP leader
Gyorgy Konrad	Famous writer and sociologist
Jean Edward Smith	American historian
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie	Former Indonesian President
Robert Frank	Documentary Photographer
Kottakkal Chandrasekharan	Kathakali maestro
KiranNagarkar	Mumbai born noted novelist and playwright

August 2019

Name of the Personality	Field
Malcolm Nash	Former Cricketer
Actor Russi Taylor	Disney’s Minnie Mouse
Anant Setalvad	Cricket Commentator
Kanti Bhatt	Veteran Gujarati journalist, author and columnist
Sushma Swaraj	Former External Affairs Minister
Toni Morrison	Nobel laureate and beloved author
S. Jennifer Chandran	Former T.N. Minister
Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy	Former Padma Shri award winner
Harley Race	American Professional Wrestler
J Om Prakash	Veteran director
Dayanidhi Nayak	Freedom fighter
Amarendra Sharan	Senior advocate and former Additional Solicitor General
DJ Arafat	Music star
Jose Luis Brown	Former Argentina footballer
V.B. Chandrasekhar	Former India and Tamil Nadu cricketer
Vidya Sinha	Veteran Bollywood actress
Rizia Rahman	Renowned Bangladeshi Novelist
Damodar Ganesh Bapat	Social Worker and Padma Shri Award Winner
Neelum Sharma	Doordarshan Anchor and Nari Shakti Award Winner
Jagannath Mishra	Former Bihar Chief Minister
Mohammed Zahur Hashmi	Veteran Music Composer
Niranjan Singh Tasneem	Eminent Punjabi Writer and Sahitya Akademi Winner
Babulal Gaur	Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
Arun Jaitley	Former Union Finance Minister and Senior BJP Leader
Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya	India’s first woman Director General of Police (DGP)
Commander Noel Kelman	Naval war hero and Kirti Chakra awardee
Rajnish Kumar Babbi	Congress (MLA) from the Mukerian assembly
Navnitbhai Shah	Socialist leader and former MLA of Palghar
Nimu Bhowmik	Veteran Bengali Actor

July 2019

Name of the Personality	Field
Carlin Dunne	Professional motorcycle racer
Basant Kumar Birla	Veteran industrialist
Lee Iacocca	US auto industry
A. U. Celestine	Former India football goalkeeper
Joao Gilberto	Brazilian musician and songwriter
Soumendranath Kundu	Former Bengal and Railway leg-spinner
C. Kapur	Former Billiards and Snooker Federation of India secretary
H.M. Ershad	Bangladesh’s Former Military Dictator
Pernell Whitaker	Former Olympic Boxing gold medalist and four-weight World Champion
Lt Gen Joginder Singh Gharaya	1971 Indo-Pak War Hero
Fernando Corbato	American computer scientist
Raja Dhale	Co-Founder of Dalit Panther
Sheila Dixit	Three-time Delhi Chief Minister
Ram Chandra Paswan	Lok Janshakti Party MP
Yukiya Amano	IAEA Chief
Peter McNamara	Australian tennis champion
Li Peng	Former Chinese Premier
Rutger Hauer	‘Blade Runner’ Actor
Beji Caid Essebsi	Tunisia’s First Democratically Elected President
Donkupar Roy	Former Meghalaya Chief Minister
S. Jaipal Reddy	Former Union Minister
Vitthal Radadiya	Former Gujarat MP
M. Mukesh Goud	Former Andhra Pradesh congress state Minister
Subir Vithal Gokarn	Former RBI Deputy Governor

June 2019

Name of the Personality	Field
Ruma Guha Thakurta	Actor-Singer
Dinyar Contractor	Veteran Comedian, Film and Theatre Actor
Lennart Johansson	Ex-UEFA Chief, Father of Champions League
Dr John	Six-time Grammy-winning musician
Girish Karnad	Noted Actor, Filmmaker and Playwright
Crazy Mohan	Tamil writer, Comedian and Actor
R V Janakiraman	Former Puducherry Chief Minister
Pazhavila Ramesan	Poet, lyricist
Rajnath Singh ‘Surya’	Former BJP Rajya Sabha MP
Mohamed Morsy	Former Egyptian President
Mohan Ranade	Goa freedom fighter
Vijaya Nirmala	Actor-director
Shyam Sundar Mitra	Former Bengal cricketer
Jharna Dhara Chowdhury	Eminent Social Activist
Abburi Chaya Devi	Telugu story writer
Babu Narayanan	Malayalam director
Brij Mohan Khaitan	Veteran Industrialist
Pazhavila Ramesan	Poet and lyricist
Mohammed Baji	Oldest Freedom fighter
Madan Lal Saini	BJP member from Rajasthan

May 2019

Name of the Personality	Field
Master Hirannaiah	Indian film actor in Kannada Film Industry
Shubhasan Reddy	Former High Court Chief Justice
Peter Mayhew	Actor
Derek Sippy	Billiards Player
Baidyanath Mishra	Economist
NR Madhava Menon	Lawyer ( Known as the father of legal modern education )
Prof. Kirpal Singh	Historian, Educationist, First chronicler of Partition
YC Deveshwar	ITC Chairman and Entrepreneur
Thoppil Mohamed Meeran	Tamil Writer
Hiralal Yadav	Singer
Rallapalli Venkata Narasimha Rao	Telugu Actor
I M Pei	Architect
Niki Lauda	Austrian Formula One Driver. Only driver in F1 history to have been champion for both Ferrari and McLaren
Sammy Shore	Actor, Co-founder of Comedy Store
Vijaya Mulay	Filmmaker, Director of Ek,Anek aur Ekta
Veeru Devgan	Stuntman, Film Director, Father of Ajay Devgan
Negasso Gidada	Former President of Ethiopia
Maramraju Satyanarayan	Writer and academician
Seymour Nurse	Cricketer
Peggy Lipton	Actress
BOB Hawke	Former Prime Minister of Australia
M B Balakrishnan	Swimmer
P P C Joshi	Veteran CPI Leader
V Vishwanathan Menon	Former Kerala Finance Minister
Clement von Franckenstein	Actor
Doris Day	Actress

April 2019

Name of the Personality	Field
J. Mahendran	Noted Tamil Film Director
Kartik Chandra Rath	Eminent Dramatist, theatre organiser, and Economics teacher
Sydney Brenner	2002 Medicine Nobel Prize Winner
Pradeep Choubey	Renowned Hindi Poet
SK Shivakumar	Renowned Space Scientist
Jerrie Cobb	America’s first female astronaut candidate of NASA
Con de Lange	Scotland All-rounder
Lorraine Warren	A Paranormal Investigator
Amar Paul	Eminent Bengali Folk Singer
S. Muthiah	Chennai’s famed chronicler, cartographer, and journalist
Rama Sengupta Paul	Veteran Lady Mountaineer
Terry Rawlings	British Film Editor
Mark Medoff	An Acclaimed Author
Pungam Kannan	Former Indian Footballer
Negasso Gidada	Former Ethiopian President
John Singleton	Youngest Best Director Oscar Nominee
Alan Garcia	Peru's former president
Damon J Keith	Famous US Judge and Civil Rights Icon

March 2019

Name of the Personality	Field
Zhores Alferov	Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Andre Previn	Legendary Composer And 4 Time Oscar Winner
Luke Perry	American Actor
Manohar Parrikar	Present Goa Chief Minister
Alan Krueger	Famed Economist
Anasuya Devi	Folk Artiste and Radio Commentator
Scott Walker	Experimental Pop Hero
Ashita	Malayalam writer and poet
Valmiki J Mehta	Sitting Judge of Delhi HC
Maate Mahadevi	Prominent Lingayat pontiff and Basava Dharma Peetha President
M.N. Samant	India-Pakistan war hero, Captain
Valery Bykovsky	Recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of Lenin awards
Prafulla Rajguru	Veteran journalist and academician

February 2019

Name of the Personality	Field
Dr. R.B. Patil	Padma Shri
Wallace Smith Broecker	Climate Scientist, Populariser of the term Global Warming
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi	Former Afghan Interim President
W.E.B. Griffin	American military veteran and novelist
Raj Kumar Barjatya	Veteran Film Producer
Namvar Singh	Noted Hindi Writer
Bruno Ganz	Swiss Actor
Andrea Levy	Best-selling British Author
Gardon Banks	Legendary Goalkeeper Of England
Manfred Eigen	Chemistry Nobel Prize Winner
Mahesh Anand	Actor
Albert Finney	Oscar-Nominated British Actor
John Dingell	Longest-Serving US Congressman
Ramesh Bhatkar	Veteran Marathi Actor
Hiten Bhaya	Former IIMC Director
Raj Kumar Barjatya	Filmmaker
Naga Jhansi	Well known Television actress
Syed Badr Ul Hasan Khan	Notable actor and dancer
Howard Neil Hebert	US Army veteran

January 2019

Name of the Personality	Field
CH Loknath	Veteran Kannada Actor
Dibyendu Palit	Veteran Bengali Writer
Sir Michael Atiyah	1966 Fields Medalist (Nobel for Mathematics)
Lenin Rajendran	Malayalam director and screenwriter
Mary Oliver	Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Masazo Nonaka	World’s Oldest Man
Atin Bandyopadhyay	Sahitya Akademi Award Winning Bengali Writer
Russell Baker	Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist
Michel Legrand	Oscar-Winning French Composer
George Fernandes	Former Union Minister
Krishna Sobti	Jnanpith Winning Hindi Writer
Jaswinder Sandhu	Indian National Lok Dal (INLD)’s senior leader and MLA
Ramakant Achrekar	Cricket coach and Padma Shri
Kader Khan	Veteran actor-writer
Raghbir Bhola	1956 Olympics Gold Medallist
Shivakumara Swami	Supercentenarian, humanitarian, spiritual leader and educator.
Mathew Boodle	Teacher

January 2018

Name of the Personality	Field
Anwar Jalalpuri	Urdu poet
Radha Viswanathan	Carnatic singer,
Peter Sutherland	Former World Trade Organization Director-General
Saksham Yadav	Powerlifting world champion
John Young	Legendary American astronaut
Shrivallabh Vyas	Bollywood actor
Baldev Raj	Atomic scientist and NIAS Director
Gnani Sankaran	Veteran Tamil writer, journalist and theatre personality
Raghunath Jha	Former Union minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise
Jo Jo white	American Basketball player
Kashinath	Veteran Kannada actor
Chandi Lahiri	Famous Cartoonist
Major FKK Sircar	Longest living Indian Army veteran
Hugh Masekela ,	Legendary jazz musician and activist also known as ‘Father of South African jazz’,
Ursula K Le Guin	Science fiction and fantasy author
Supriya Devi	Famous actress from West Bengal
Chandrashekhar known as ‘Edakallu Guddada Mele’	Noted Kannada actor
Feodor Ingvar Kamprad	Founder of IKEA (Swedish multinational group)
Kalamandalam Geethanandan	Ottanthulal artist

February 2018   

Name of the Personality	Field
Chintaman Wanaga	Senior BJP MP and a member of the 11th and the 13th Lok Sabha
Francisco Nunez Olivera	world’s oldest man
Hukum Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament from Western Uttar Pradesh’s Kairana
Madavoor Vasudevan Nair	Kathakali maestro
Gali Muddu Krishnama Naidu.	presently member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council
John Mahoney	Hollywood Actor
Chandrasekhar Rath	The doyen of Odia literature
Asma Jahangir	Pakistan’s well known human rights lawyer , social activist, co-founder and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
Johann Johannsson,	Icelandic composer and producer
Didier Lockwood	French jazz violinist
Gundu Hanumantha Rao	Telugu actor
Ruud Lubbers	The youngest and longest-serving prime minister of the Netherlands,
Billy Graham	Christian evangelist
Dr BK Goyal	Eminent cardiologist
Kunhiraman Panoor popularly known as K Panoor	Renowned writer and social activist
M.S. Anantharaman,	Noted violinist
Neelabh Mishra	Senior journalist and editor-in-chief of National Herald
Sridevi	Veteran Bollywood actress
TSR Subramanian	Former Cabinet secretary
Kanakalata Mohanty	Noted Odia author

March 2018

Name of the Personality	Field
Penny Vincenzi	British Novelist
S Ratnavel Pandian	Former Supreme Court Judge
Arabinda Muduli	Odia Bhajan singer
Khagendra Jamatia	Tripura Fisheries Minister
Prafulla Das	Veteran Literateur
Davide Astori	Fiorentina captain and Italy international
Javed Abidi	Noted Disability rights activist
SaratMohanty	Odia actor
Shammi	Veteran Bollywood actor
Justice D Sreedevi	Former Kerala high court judge and chairperson of Kerala Women’s Commission,
M K Bhargav	Former Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) chairman
Patangrao Kadam	Former Maharashtra minister
Stephen Hawking	World famous British scientist
Narendra Jha	Actor
M Sukumaran	Malayalam writer
Kedarnath Singh	Veteran Hindi Poet
Peter Peterson	Blackstone Co-Founder
Les Payne	A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, columnist and editor of Newsday
Bruno Boban	Footballer
Pyarelal Wadali	Veteran Sufi Singer

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April 2018

Name of the Personality	Field
C.V. Rajendran	Tamil film director
R K Dorendra Singh	Former Manipur Chief Minister
S Nihal Singh	Veteran journalist
Barbara Bush	Former US first lady
Rajinder Sachar	Former Delhi High Court Chief Justice
TVR Shenoy	Veteran journalist and columnist
Bhimsain Khurana	Indian animation pioneer and multiple National Award winner
Nabi Tajima	The world's oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman named
Efraín Ríos Montt	Guatemalan general and politician
Ray Wilkins	English football player and coach
E.N. Rammohan	Former BSF Director-General (DG)
Niranjan Thomas Alva	the husband of former Rajasthan governor Margaret Alva
Munin Barua	Indian film director in Assamese cinematography
M S Ravi	Veteran journalist

May 2018

Name of the Personality	Field
Ashok Mitra	The first Finance Minister in the Left Front government in West Bengal
Ankit Chadha	Indian story-teller
P P Lakshaman	Former AIFF President
Kottayam Pushpanath	Popular Malayalam detective novelist
Keyur Bhushan	Freedom fighter, writer
Dave Michener	veteran Disney animator
Dr Nirmal Hirawat	Former Madhya Pradesh minister and senior Congress leader
Ravinder Sharma	Artist-Philosopher,called Guruji, the founder of Adilabad's Kala Ashram
Tom Wolfe	best-selling author and journalist
Yamunabai Waikar	Lavani singer and Padma Shri recipient
Balakumaran	Indian Tamil writer, author
Dr Bansidhar Panda	Odia industrialist
Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani	popular Indian Telugu novelist
Arun Date	Marathi singer.
Anne V. Coates	Oscar-Winning British film editor
Balkavi Bairagi	Noted Lyricist, Poet, Politician
Margot Kidder	Actor Who Played Lois Lane In Superman
Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani	Veteran writer, novelist
Alan Bean	Former US astronaut, who was the fourth man to walk on the Moon
Vinod Bhatt	Gujarati humour essayist and biographer

June 2018

Name of the Personality	Field
Timothy Pereira	former football international who represented Tata FC.
Narayan Prasad Singh	Odisha's most popular lyricist, also popularly known as 'Rasaraj'.
Nerella Venumadhav	He was a Mimicry Artist.
legend Peter Thomson	He was an Australian golfer and won five British Open titles.
Charles Krauthammer	He was a political commentator and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Donald Hall	He was an Award-winning American poet and writer.
Laxman Patil–Bhosle	He was a Socialist leader.
Senior Cong leader L P Shahi	Senior Congress Leader.
Maria Bueno	He was a Legendary Brazilian tennis player.
Shantaram Naik	He was a Veteran Goa Congress leader.
Xavier Rutsa	He was a journalist.
Bhaiyyu Maharaj	Spiritual guru
Mulubha Jadeja	Former Saurashtra batsman
Shahzahan Bachchu	Bangladeshi writer and publisher
Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi	He was a Renowned Urdu satirist and humour writer.
Prabhakar Choubey	Veteran journalist

July 2018

Name of the Personality	Field
Chiyo Miyako	117 years old world's oldest Japanese woman,
Ramapada Chowdhury,	Bengali writer, also conferred the Sahitya Academy award for 'Bari badle jay'
Swapan Sarkar	Sports journalist of Ananda Bazaar Patrika (ABP)
Jonathan Gold	Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic
Ramchandra Singhdeo	Former and first Finance Minister of Chhattisgarh
Gopal Das Neeraj	Hindi poet and His famous poetic works include Asawari, Lahar Pukare and Paran Geet.
Rita Bhaduri	Actor
M.N. Vyasa Rao	Kannada poet and film song lyricist. Recipient of the Karnataka Rajya Sahitya Academy award
Dada Vaswani	Spiritual leader and was chief of Sadhu Vaswani Mission. Also her birthday (August 2), is celebrated as an International Forgiveness Day.
Liliane Montevecchi	The Paris-born dancer, actor, and singer also Tony Award winner
JG Nadkarni	Former chief of naval staff Admiral
Kabutari Devi	Kumaoni folk singer
J N Sadhu	Journalist worked with The Indian Express
Kanu Gohain	Former Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)
Kalpesh Yagnik	Senior journalist, and group editor of popular Hindi daily ‘Dainik Bhaskar’.
M.N. Vyasa Rao	Kannada poet and film lyricist

August 2018

Name of the Personality	Field
John McCain	US Senator, also a Republican presidential nominee in 2008.
Kuldip Nayar	Indian writer and journalist. autobiography was "Beyond The Lines"
Uri Avnery	Israeli journalist and peace activist
Kofi Annan	Former United Nations Secretary-General, also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with the UN in 2001 "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"
Aretha Franklin	US singer, also known as “Queen of Soul” and received the Grammy Award 18 times.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Three times Prime Minister of India
Ajit Wadekar	Former India cricket captain
Balramji Das Tandon	Chhattisgarh Governor
Somnath Chatterjee	Former Lok Sabha speaker
V S Naipaul	Nobel Prize-winning British author, won the Nobel Literature Prize in 2001
Jarrod Lyle	Australian professional golfer
Minister M. Karunanidhi	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief and former Tamil Nadu Chief
Krishna Shripadrao Deshpande	Library scientist Prof
Rajinder Kumar Dhawan	Veteran Congress leader
Mony K. Mathew	Former The Hindu BusinessLine journalist

September 2018

NAME OF THE PERSONALITY	FIELD
Tarun Sagar	Jain Monk
Arthur Pereira	Former Maharashtra Football Player
Dr. Rita Jitendra	Writer
Goura Chandra Mohapatra	Freedom Fighter
Satya Prakash Malviya	Former Union Petroleum minister
Dolagobind Pradhan	Former Odisha Minister
Anna Rajam Malhotra	India’s First woman IAS officer post-independence
Kondapalli Koteswaramma	A revolutionary leader, writer
Tran Dai Quan	Vietnam President
Randhir Singh	Former Air Marshal
Kalpana Lajmi	Filmmaker
BN Dutt	Former BCCI President
Jasdev Singh	Sports Commentator
Kavita Mahajan	Marathi Writer
Manoharsinh Jadeja	Former Finance minister of Gujarat
Tulsidas Borkar	Harmonium Player

October 2018

Name of Personality	Field
Malti Sharma	Former Up Minister
Montserrat Caballe	Spanish Opera Singer
Natwar Thakkar	Prominent Gandhian(Also Called Gandhi Of Nagaland)
Girish Patel	Human Rights Lawer , Gujrat
Pradip Chowdhary	Senior Journalist
Mn Paloor	Malayali Poet
Sarvagya Katiyar	Former Kanpur University Vice-Chancellor
Santosh Singh Jain	Film Trade Expert
Kishore Giri	Assamese Singer
Gd Aggarwal	Clean Ganga Activist
Annapurna Devi	Hindustani Classical Musician
Paul G.Allen	Microsoft Co-Founder
Nd Tiwari	Former Up And Uttrakhand Chief Minister
Siddalinga Swamiji	Karnataka’s Popular Lingayat Leader
Osamu Shimomura	2008 Nobel Prize Winner
Na. Muthuswamy	Theatre Personality
Pankaj Bandyopadhyay	Founder Member, Trinamool Congress
Madan Lal Khurana	Former Delhi Chief Minister
Qazi Abdusattar	Urdu Writer
Ntozake Shange	African American Playwriter
Yashwant Dev	Senior Composer And Lyricist

November 2018

Name	Field
Vice Admiral Manohar Pralhad Avati	Veteran Of 1971 Indo Pak War
V . Ratinam	Veteran Freedom Fighter
K.P.S Srivastava	Veteran Journalist
Vinod Aggarwal	Famous Devotional Singer
Lalan Sarang	Marathi Actor
Ananth Kumar	Parliamentary Affairs Minister
T.N Srinivasan	Eminent Economist And Free Trade Advocate
SN Phulkan	Former Supreme Court Judge
Roshan Lal Sethi	Veteran Sports Journalist
Chitta Jena	Odiya Singer
Alyque Padamsee	Brand Father Of Indian Advertising
Brigadier Kuldeep Singh Chandpuri	Army Veteran
Banamalli Maharana	Odissi Musician
T.S Kanaka	Asia’s First Women Neurosurgeon
Narayan Das Maharaj	Padam Shri Awardee And Revered Saint
William Goldman	Oscar-Winning Screenwriter
Ustad Imrat Khan	Indian Classical Musician
Fahmida Riaz	Pakistani Poet
Baishnab Parida	Former Minister Of Parliament
Sandeep Michael	Former Hockey Player
Ck Jaffer Sharif	Former Railway Minister
Mh Ambareesh	Kannada Actor , Former Minister
Bernardo Bertolucci	Oscar Winning Director
Iravatham Mahadevan	Leading Indus Valley Scholar
Harry Leslie Smith	World War 2 Veteran

December 2018

Name of the Personality	Field
Kader Khan	Legendary Actor
George Herbert Walker Bush	Former US President
Nirupam Sen	Veteran CPI (M) leader
Mrinal Sen	Legendary filmmaker
Pandit Arun Bhaduri	Famous Classical Singer
Mushirul Hasan	Renowned historian and former vice-chancellor Jamia Millia of Islamia
Nana Chudasama	Former Mumbai Mayor and Padma Shri
Dipali Borthakur	Nightingale of Assam
Jai Narain Prasad Nishad	Former Union Minister
CN Balakrishnan	Politician
Tulsi Ramsay	Indian film director
Nancy Wilson	Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist
Penny Marshall	Actress, Producer, Director
Ken Berry	Actor/dancer/singer
Philip Bosco	Actor
Peter Armitage	Actor (UK)
Pete Shelley	Singer/songwriter (UK)
Frank Adonis	Actor
June Whitfield	Actress (UK)
Ray Sawyer	Singer

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